I believe this is a slightly controversial topic, at least from what I have gathered so far. Some say its best to leave the server on to spare the life time of the spinning rust. Other seem to prefer to save power and boot the server off each night. So wanted to chip in and hear what folks here do and why do what you do.

Bonus question; Do you guys have a UPS? Is it a must have for a homelab, or does it just depend on the usecase?

  • BritishJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    We power off servers in the enterprise all the time and on schedules 😂. Its called saving money.

      • BritishJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        In pretty much any enterprise using the public cloud. Everything is auto scaling, so shutdowns when not needed. Dev environments shutdown over night… If you’re not shutting down and scaling in the public cloud, you’re doing it wrong.

          • BritishJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            Is it shutting down servers… Yes. it just does it based on parameters and thresholds.

            Then you get things like VDI servers and jump boxes that only need to be on between certain hours, so get shutdown outside them hours.

            • WordBox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              Right you don’t shut them down, you scale them down. My server also uses less power off peak demand.

              • BritishJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                5 months ago

                No we shut them down. They get deallocated the same way as shutting down a virtual server does. They’re not containers, the scaling part just turns them on and off based on workload or schedule